Review Summary

The first 3-D animated film from France, this outer-space fantasy, about a plucky teenage girl (Kirsten Dunst in the English-language version) struggling to save her planet from destruction, is thick with distracting visual detail, to the point where it is often hard to distinguish the characters from the digital underbrush. The plotting, too, is needlessly dense, which necessitates long, static sequences in which the characters fill one another in on the story and still manage to leave the viewer behind. A gallant effort, technically at least, but a fatally uninvolving movie.  Dave Kehr